Albert Camus Quotes - Page 36

• I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.

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  Giving Up, Ambition, Upset

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• The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

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  Rooms, Saws, Firsts

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.72, Vintage

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• Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness.

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  Country, Men, Thinking

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

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  Brother, Stars, Night

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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• Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

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  Islands, Isolation, Easier

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• In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

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  Average, Facts, Normal

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

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  Felt, Urges

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• I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

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  Memories, Men, Years

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.79, Vintage

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• ...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

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  Play, Mind

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• On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

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  Real, Ignorance, Men

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

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  Philosophy, Ironic, Passionate

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.116, Vintage

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• Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.

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  Men, Differences, Views

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• It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

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  Views, Ideas, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.42, Vintage

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• Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.

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  Dream, Country, Night

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

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  Men, Suffering, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.83, Vintage

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• Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

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  Revolutionary, Ends, Heretic

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• Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

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  Reality, Utopia, Contradiction

  Albert Camus (2007). “Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947”, p.261, Princeton University Press

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• A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

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  Writing, Suffering, Today

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

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  Selfish, Passion, Comfort

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.

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  Love, Great Love, Objects

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.58, Vintage

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• Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

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  Artist, Men, Stronger

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

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  Real, Men, Example

  "Reflections on the Guillotine". Book by Albert Camus, 1957.

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• And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

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  Real, Profound, Aristocracy

  "Notebooks".

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• Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

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  Light, Mind, Borders

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• Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

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  War, Struggle, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.180, Vintage

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